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Anomali vs Corelight Open NDR comparison

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
4.5
Cortex XDR enhances security, reduces costs, improves efficiency, and delivers ROI by automating threat remediation and preventing ransomware spread.
Sentiment score
6.0
Anomali improves ROI by enhancing SOC efficiency, reducing manual processes, and increasing productivity through automation and AI.
Sentiment score
7.0
Corelight Open NDR provides cost-effective, enhanced visibility and ROI through strategic pricing, on-premises hosting, and competitive partnerships.
With Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks' incident correlation, behavioral detection, and process tree visibility, similar initial triage can often be completed in roughly 10 to 20 minutes, depending on the incident.
Cybersecurity Engineer at Gigabit Technologies Pvt Ltd
They appreciate the rich telemetry data from the solution, as it provides in-depth threat identification.
Cyber Security Manager at Welab bank
Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks helps to reduce my total cost of ownership significantly.
Detection and Response Consultant at Inovasys
Analyst productivity has improved significantly, with hours saved because of automation and AI-driven work that Anomali performs.
Global Leadership Council at a tech company with 10,001+ employees
Anomali provides us with a very cost-effective value compared to the market, and I would rate it ten out of ten for return on investment metrics.
Solution Delivery Advisor at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
There is a return on investment concerning time and effort saved by 40% after implementing Anomali.
Security Consultant at Deloitte
Corelight Investigator is sold as a software as a service license, and sensors are of course a one-time fee with their hardware maintenance.
Growth And Strategy Lead at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
I believe I have seen a return on my investment with Corelight Open NDR.
Principle Security Architect at Eversource Energy
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
7.0
Palo Alto Networks' support is praised for expertise and speed but needs improvement in responsiveness and problem resolution.
Sentiment score
5.0
Anomali's customer service is praised for expertise and support, though smaller clients face response time challenges.
Sentiment score
7.1
Corelight Open NDR's customer service is praised for responsiveness and expertise, despite occasional reports of poor service quality.
The technical support from Palo Alto deserves a mark of ten because they reach out within an hour whenever assistance is needed.
Head of data centers at a non-profit with 10,001+ employees
There is no back and forth, and they know what we are asking for and come up with the best resolution for a solution.
Senior Process Expert at A.P. Moller - Maersk
If any of these services are missed, it becomes a problem in terms of support tickets, follow-up, or special configuration that needs to be done in the system.
Chief of IT Architecture at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
They have strong onboarding and deployment assistance, provide a dedicated technical account manager for large customers, and engage in regular product updates and customer interaction.
Global Leadership Council at a tech company with 10,001+ employees
The technical support at Anomali is excellent.
Senior Cyber Threat Hunter at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
It doesn't seem very professional how they're handling support anymore.
Enterprise Security Architect V at FirstEnergy
I would probably say we are at an eight or nine as far as the quality of support, which I think is very reasonable.
Growth And Strategy Lead at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
Corelight support was very helpful in showing me some tool sets they have under the covers that allow me to automate that process.
Principle Security Architect at Eversource Energy
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.4
Cortex XDR scales efficiently across endpoints, offering seamless cloud-based expansion and integration for diverse enterprise environments.
Sentiment score
8.0
Anomali offers scalable threat intelligence solutions, supporting organizations' growth with seamless tool integration and unlimited data management capacity.
Sentiment score
7.2
Corelight Open NDR offers scalable, flexible sensor solutions for diverse businesses, simplifying network traffic management and expansion, especially in Kubernetes.
You can onboard 10,000 endpoints in just hours, which demonstrates the excellent scalability of this product.
Assistant Security Architect at Cloudnomics
Activating the newly purchased licenses is instantaneous, allowing installations without adjustments since it's cloud-based.
Junior Security Analyst at ITSEC Asia
Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks can be expanded anytime by purchasing another license without any issues related to scalability.
Head of data centers at a non-profit with 10,001+ employees
The scalability is massive, allowing us to store millions of indicators.
Enterprise Security Architect V at FirstEnergy
I believe Anomali's scalability is good; whether it is an organization for ten people or one hundred thousand people, the job a threat intel platform has to do will be the same.
Sr. Threat Intelligence Analyst at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Anomali's scalability is impressive as a mature platform capable of processing large amounts of threat intelligence and indicators of compromise data.
Global Leadership Council at a tech company with 10,001+ employees
With Investigator itself, Corelight Open NDR is very easy to scale and manage as a business changes.
Growth And Strategy Lead at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.0
Cortex XDR is stable, with high ratings, improved over time, minimal issues, and consistent performance, recommended regular updates.
Sentiment score
8.4
Anomali shows high stability and reliability globally but requires improved management of platform changes for better adaptation.
Sentiment score
8.4
Corelight Open NDR offers reliability and stability, leveraging Zeek technology and effective fleet management for consistent performance.
Cortex remains fast and responsive, even with increasing data and alerts.
Final Year Student at Gitam University
The thresholds we've seen on our firewall boxes at some instances reached 80% to 85%, but even at that level of utilization, we don't observe any latency or any issues reported with respect to accessing the application.
Senior Process Expert at A.P. Moller - Maersk
Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks can be trusted completely.
Soc Analyst at Softcell Technologies Limited
From a reliability perspective, Anomali consistently injects threat feeds, works on automation, performs reliable API integrations, and supports enterprise scale globally.
Global Leadership Council at a tech company with 10,001+ employees
For example, while Microsoft allows ample time for users to adapt to deprecated features, Anomali only gave us three weeks before switching, so they need to be more cognizant of customer use cases from their engineering side.
Enterprise Security Architect V at FirstEnergy
The good thing is that they have a health check page, and if any issues arise, they notify us.
Lead Cyber Threat Intelligence Incident Response Engineer & Security Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
I cannot think of any time we have had a serious disruption to anything we have been doing due to some technical issue on their side.
Growth And Strategy Lead at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
Corelight Open NDR has been very stable as a solution.
Principle Security Architect at Eversource Energy
 

Room For Improvement

Cortex XDR needs improvements in usability, integration, automation, reporting, resource efficiency, and support for diverse systems to enhance appeal.
Anomali needs AI upgrades, improved interface, better threat handling, expanded GenAI, streamlined features, and integration enhancements.
Corelight Open NDR users desire an interactive interface, better customer support, simplified querying, enhanced documentation, and more transparent pricing.
Improving reporting and dashboard customization, along with the addition of real-time and exportable reports, would help SOC teams greatly.
Final Year Student at Gitam University
When a Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks incident is confirmed, it would be useful to automatically create a ServiceNow or Jira ticket with the incident summary, including affected endpoints, user indicators, process tree, severity, and recommended response actions.
Cybersecurity Engineer at Gigabit Technologies Pvt Ltd
The inclusion of this feature would allow the application of DLP policies alongside antivirus policies via a single agent and console, making it more competitive as other OEMs often offer DLP solutions as part of their antivirus products.
Pre Sales Architect at network techlab
Combining all aliases into a coherent solution would be beneficial, as we had to review each individual source ourselves.
Senior Cyber Threat Hunter at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Anomali should increase their capability to fetch details from various dark web solutions where threat actors post compromised credentials.
Lead Cyber Threat Intelligence Incident Response Engineer & Security Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
Anomali's ability to correlate and integrate different Threat Intel platforms, such as Mandiant and PolySwarm, is another valuable feature, removing duplicacy and enabling the application of specific IOCs across various security controls.
Associate Consultant at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
Corelight has done a really good job of making sure that everything is explainable and everything is mapped when it comes to leveraging any of their artificial intelligence features.
Growth And Strategy Lead at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
I believe what they have done with it, taking an open-source engine and bundling it into an appliance with professional support, was a brilliant idea.
Principle Security Architect at Eversource Energy
 

Setup Cost

Cortex XDR offers advanced features with premium pricing, flexible licensing, easy setup, but incurs extra costs for comprehensive security.
Anomali offers medium to high pricing with flexible licensing, enterprise contracts, and trusted leadership influencing continued usage.
Corelight Open NDR's pricing is mixed, with affordable options for experts but costly for new adopters, despite communication issues.
The pricing on SentinelOne is far more reasonable and cheaper than Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks.
Consultant at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I would say it is definitely not a cheap product, considering how mature it is and how scalable all Palo Alto products are together.
Senior Process Expert at A.P. Moller - Maersk
Compared to CrowdStrike, which is very costly, and SentinelOne, which is also very costly, Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks is a medium cost-efficient solution.
Soc Analyst at Softcell Technologies Limited
Pricing and licensing are good, but the costs for purchasing threat feeds are somewhat complicated and a bit on the higher side.
Associate Consultant at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
My experience with Anomali's pricing is that it is higher compared to other open-source alternatives.
Senior Information Technology Security Consultant at Mideast Data Systems
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that there are not many follow-ups, but once we interacted with the product team or the leadership of Anomali, they managed a lot with us, and it all paid off to reach a conclusion that we would continue with this product.
Solution Delivery Advisor at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Corelight Investigator is sold as a software as a service license, and sensors are of course a one-time fee with their hardware maintenance.
Growth And Strategy Lead at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
 

Valuable Features

Cortex XDR provides AI-driven threat detection, seamless integration, and efficient management for comprehensive, scalable, and cost-effective cybersecurity.
Anomali excels in threat intelligence with strong integrations, user-friendly features, and enhances efficiency in threat visibility and response.
Corelight Open NDR provides cost-effective, efficient network threat detection and management with machine learning to reduce alert fatigue.
It incorporates AI for normal behavior detection, distinguishing unusual operations.
Cyber Security Manager at Welab bank
The product provides automation responses in case of a threat attack, severity assessments, centralized manageability, and comprehensive compliance features, resulting in reduced costs.
Pre Sales Architect at network techlab
It includes machine learning to easily analyze data and detect complex threats across endpoints, networks, or clouds.
Final Year Student at Gitam University
Regarding integration, Anomali has capabilities to integrate with different downstream applications such as Palo Alto, allowing us to create playbooks to block domains, URLs, or IPs directly within the firewall.
Lead Cyber Threat Intelligence Incident Response Engineer & Security Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
Correlating IOCs with the telemetry data we are ingesting from our data sources allows us to pull monthly reports identifying how many assets and users interacted with malicious content, giving insight into whether communications failed or users accessed restricted content, providing complete visibility of the IOCs traveling throughout our environment.
Associate Consultant at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
It aggregates intelligence from hundreds of sources, automatically de-duplicates, applies risk scoring, applies context, and reduces much manual effort.
Global Leadership Council at a tech company with 10,001+ employees
The benefits include visibility, as the Suricata engine can scan huge volumes of traffic.
Principle Security Architect at Eversource Energy
Corelight Open NDR is a really powerful platform. Pairing up the sensors with Investigator, you are getting incredibly rich data, which we are also able to further enrich with additional feeds such as CrowdStrike or CISAIAS.
Growth And Strategy Lead at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
 

Categories and Ranking

Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Net...
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Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
122
Ranking in other categories
Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) (4th), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) (5th), Extended Detection and Response (XDR) (3rd), Ransomware Protection (2nd), AI-Powered Cybersecurity Platforms (1st)
Anomali
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.2
Number of Reviews
13
Ranking in other categories
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) (9th), User Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) (5th), Threat Intelligence Platforms (TIP) (3rd)
Corelight Open NDR
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
7
Ranking in other categories
Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS) (19th), Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) (4th), Network Detection and Response (NDR) (6th), AI-Powered Cybersecurity Platforms (12th)
 

Featured Reviews

ABHISHEK_SINGH - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Process Expert at A.P. Moller - Maersk
Gained full visibility and streamlined threat detection through behavior-based insights and AI integration
Initially, we got to have a lot of false positives when we onboarded, but nowadays it's quite smooth. We have fine-tuned our security policies and allowed different levels of policies to get rid of those false positives. Currently, we are getting a fairly good amount of incidents that are not false positives or benign, but actionable items. The process is streamlined. In the initial days, the operations used to get involved in a lot of benign and other activities, but now the process is streamlined. We are leveraging the auto-detection and remediation plans. The operations teams are now more involved in other business roles as well, not just looking into the logs and fetching out what's happening there. They have fixed a lot of things. Initially, they didn't have IAC code drift detection, cloud posture management, or security posture management, but they have those now. They purchased different vendors and did a merger with that. They have now Prisma Cloud that gets integrated and now they are working with Cortex Cloud. Everything that was negative has now been addressed, and the product altogether looks to be in a very better and mature shape now. Currently, it's more or less detecting the workloads with AI-based best practices. Since most organizations are consuming AI agents and other things, we are looking forward to seeing what other feature enhancements Palo Alto can support in that.
TarunKumar11 - PeerSpot reviewer
Global Leadership Council at a tech company with 10,001+ employees
Strategic threat intelligence has improved detection speed and consistently reduces analyst workload
Anomali can be improved in various aspects. Its AI-driven automation can further advance, and AI-powered investigation summaries can improve. User experience could be enhanced through simplification of workflows. Better board-level cyber risk dashboards could provide easier visualization. Additionally, Anomali could work on simplifying the pricing structure. Although it excels in threat intelligence aggregation and operationalization, stronger GenAI capability, improved executive reporting, and a more intuitive workflow for analysts would further increase SOC efficiency and add more business value. Regarding Anomali's AI capabilities, governance and security are quite good. Anomali has incorporated AI and machine learning primarily to improve correlation and prioritization. These capabilities are valuable but could be more mature. The platform could achieve better threat correlation, prioritization, more anomaly detection, and allow AI to accelerate intelligence analysis while further improving quality and relevance. The accuracy and reliability of Anomali's AI output are fairly reasonable and good. The AI engine works well, but this capability could be improved. Better threat correlation with threat actors, certain indicators of compromise, malware, and campaigns is possible. Threat prioritization could increase, and alert noise could be reduced through further de-duplication. While reasonable, this is not the best available, and other products possibly have more AI maturity, such as Recorded Future and CrowdStrike Falcon.
reviewer2834367 - PeerSpot reviewer
Growth And Strategy Lead at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
Network visibility has transformed how we detect nation state threats and protect critical industry
Before Corelight recently started pushing some of the agentic features, querying at times could be a little difficult, depending on your mastery of log scale. However, I think with a lot of the artificial intelligence that they are building in, it is getting a lot easier to query in the platform. I would definitely encourage them to continue down that path where anybody can hop into the platform and start running queries, whether it is a simple instruction like I want this, and an artificial intelligence process can actually build the query and do it. I think that would be super powerful. Cyber skill sets are in high demand, and there is a huge backlog in cyber talent. We cannot fill all the positions we need. The easier we can make these cyber systems for people to pick up and be effective on, I think is really key. Explainability of data is hyper important. In the past few artificial intelligence related updates we have gotten from Corelight, that has been one of the first questions our team has asked every time or that I have asked: show me what the model is doing, show me how it came to this analysis. Within Investigator platform, they are able to walk through and see exactly what data the artificial intelligence pulled from where and why it did what it did as far as making its suggestions. They have definitely built their system with artificial intelligence in mind up front, and having that openness as one of the key features of any of their artificial intelligence and machine learning processes in the platform is important. The issue with black boxes is obviously hallucinations from artificial intelligence and just not being able to trace to ground truth. When we are talking about these cyber incidents and being able to do forensics, you need to be able to pinpoint and tie everything together, and black boxes really obscure that and prevent you from doing so. Corelight has done a really good job of making sure that everything is explainable and everything is mapped when it comes to leveraging any of their artificial intelligence features.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Comms Service Provider
14%
Outsourcing Company
12%
Construction Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Comms Service Provider
14%
Outsourcing Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Government
8%
Real Estate/Law Firm
8%
Computer Software Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business50
Midsize Enterprise21
Large Enterprise57
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business4
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise14
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business5
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise3
 

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Also Known As

Cyvera, Cortex XDR, Palo Alto Networks Traps
Match, Lens, ThreatStream, STAXX, Anomali Security Analytics, ThreatStream Next-Gen and Agentic SOC Platform
Corelight Open NDR
 

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Sample Customers

CBI Health Group, University Honda, VakifBank
Bank of England, First Energy, UBISOFT, Bank of Hope, Blackhawk Network
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